Nicolas Sarkozy goes to prison

Sarkozy, the first French post-war leader and first former head of an EU country to go to jail, will enter La Santé – the historic Paris prison that has housed some of France’s most notorious inmates

Sarkozy, 70: President from 2007-12, sentenced to five years in jail for criminal conspiracy over scheme to secure campaign funds from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi

LA SANTÉ

PARIS
5km
3 miles

La Santé Construction: 1863-67
Capacity: 657 places
Entire renovation:
2014-19 (€800m)

“VIP WING”:
Sarkozy likely to occupy cell in wing for “vulnerable people” on upper floor of Quartier Bas

Each cell, measuring 9×12m, comes with cooking hob, fridge, TV, shower, toilet
and fixed phone for approved calls

He will have one hour of solitary exercise each day and be allowed three visits per week

QUARTIER BAS
Panopticon layout
QUARTIER HAUT

FAMOUS INMATES
“Carlos the Jackal”: Notorious international terrorist in 1970s-80s
Jacques Mesrine: Famous 1970s criminal and bank robber
Manuel Noriega: Former Panamanian military dictator
Alfred Dreyfus: Jewish army officer at centre of 19th-century Dreyfus Affair
Maurice Papon: Ex-Vichy official convicted of war crimes

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Sources: Reuters, Le Monde, La Santé
Pictures: Getty Images, U.S. Marshals Service, Miami, Florida
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